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The use of moir\'e patterns to manipulate two-dimensional materials has facilitated new possibilities for controlling material properties. The moir\'e patterns in the two-dimensional magnets can cause peculiar spin texture, as shown by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Kyoung-Min Kim , Moon Jip Park

We present a theoretical investigation of the emergence of chiral topological superconductivity in small-angle twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) and twisted double bilayer graphene (tDBLG). Using the low-energy continuum model and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Kamalesh Bera , Tanay Nag , Arijit Saha

The nature of the insulating and superconducting states in twisted bilayer graphene systems is intensely debated. While many works seek for explanations in the few flat bands near the Fermi level, theory and a number of experiments suggest…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-11-06 Lennart Klebl , Carsten Honerkamp

Strongly interacting electrons in layered materials give rise to a plethora of emergent phenomena, such as unconventional superconductivity. heavy fermions, and spin textures with non-trivial topology. Similar effects can also be observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Soroush Arabi , Taner Esat , Aizhan Sabitova , Yuqi Wang , Hovan Lee , Cedric Weber , Klaus Kern , F. Stefan Tautz , Ruslan Temirov , Markus Ternes

Motivated by the recent experiment demonstration of stacking dependent interlayer magnetic interaction [T. Song et al., Nat. Mater. 18, 1298 (2019); T. Li et al., Nat. Mater. 18, 1303 (2019); W. Chen et al., Science 366, 983 (2019)], we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Feiping Xiao , Keqiu Chen , Qingjun Tong

Motivated by recent experimental studies that have found signatures of a correlated insulator phase and tuning superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene, we study the temperature-dependent conductivity, the spin correlation and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-22 Wanying Chen , Yonghuan Chu , Tongyun Huang , Tianxing Ma

Chemical bonding in 2D layered materials and van der Waals solids is central to understanding and harnessing their unique electronic, magnetic, optical, thermal and superconducting properties. Here we report the discovery of spontaneous,…

Moir\'e patterns formed by stacking atomically-thin van der Waals crystals with a relative twist angle can give rise to dramatic new physical properties. The study of moir\'e materials has so far been limited to structures comprising no…

The physics of membranes, a classic subject, acquires new momentum from two-dimensional (2D) materials multilayers. This work reports the surprising results emerged during a theoretical study of equilibrium geometry of bilayers as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Jin Wang , Erio Tosatti

Recent exploration of the commensurate structure in the turbostratic double layer graphene shows that the large angle twisting can be treated by the decrease of the effective velocity within the energy spectra of the single layer graphene.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-24 Jozef Bucko , František Herman

We report an experimental study of carrier density (n), displacement field (D) and twist angle ({\theta}) dependence of temperature (T)-linear resistivity in twisted double bilayer graphene (TDBG). For a large twist angle…

The growing library of two-dimensional layered materials is providing researchers with a wealth of opportunity to explore and tune physical phenomena at the nanoscale. Here, we review the experimental and theoretical state-of-art concerning…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-23 Bálint Náfrádi , Mohammad Choucair , László Forró

Twisted graphene based moir\'e heterostructures host a flat band at the magic angles where the kinetic energy of the charge carriers is quenched and interaction effects dominate. This results in emergent phases such as superconductors and…

Angle disorder is an intrinsic feature of twisted bilayer graphene and other moir\'e materials. Here, we discuss electron transport in twisted bilayer graphene in the presence of angle disorder. We compute the local density of states and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Héctor Sainz-Cruz , Tommaso Cea , Pierre A. Pantaleón , Francisco Guinea

Recent experimental discoveries of superconductivity and other exotic electronic states in twisted bilayer graphene (TBG) call for a reconsideration of our traditional theories of these states, usually based on the assumption of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2019-09-06 Tero T. Heikkila , Timo Hyart

Uncertainty relations are studied for a characterization of topological-band insulator transitions in 2D gapped Dirac materials isostructural with graphene. We show that the relative or Kullback-Leibler entropy in position and momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-13 Elvira Romera , Manuel Calixto

Twistronics has received much attention as a new method to manipulate the properties of 2D van der Waals structures by introducing moir\'e patterns through a relative rotation between two layers. Here we begin a theoretical exploration of…

The layer stacking order in 2D materials strongly affects functional properties and holds promise for next generation electronic devices. In bulk, octahedral MoTe$_2$ possesses two stacking arrangements, the Weyl semimetal T$_d$ phase, and…

Using large scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations of lattice bosonic models, we precisely investigate the effect of weak Josephson tunneling between 2D superfluid or superconducting layers. In the clean case, the Kosterlitz-Thouless…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-10-05 Nicolas Laflorencie

We have used scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy to resolve the spatial variation of the density of states of twisted graphene layers on top of a highly oriented pyrolytic graphite substrate. Owing to the twist a moire pattern…